Lea E Williams

We Who Believe in Freedom: The Life and Times of Ella Baker

This short biography of Ella Baker is intended for middle school and high school readers. It is the second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, published by the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. Ella Baker, who grew up in Littleton, North Carolina, is best remembered for the role she played in facilitating in April 1960 the organizational meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at Shaw University, her alma mater.
With passion and clear understanding, Lea E. Williams outlines the life that brought Baker to this crucial point in U.S. history.